1657 In Art

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Events from the year 1657 in art.

Events

*July - The outbreak of plague in Genoa reaches its height; it results in the deaths of many artists, as well as both the parents of 19-year-old painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli and two of the three sons of Luciano Borzone.
*Nicolaes van Verendael becomes a member of the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp.

Paintings

* Nicolaes Maes – '' Portrait of Four Children''
* Nicolas Poussin – ''The Flight into Egypt''
* Salomon van Ruysdael – ''View of Deventer Seen from the North-West''
* Diego Velázquez – '' Las Hilanderas'' (c.1657)
* Jan Vermeer – '' A Girl Asleep''

Births

*January - Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (died 1720)
*May 8 – Martino Altomonte, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1745)
*October 4 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsman (died 1747)
*October 8 - Wigerus Vitringa, Dutch seascape painter (died 1725)
*''date unknown''
** Gioseffo Maria Bartolini, Italian painter (died 1725)
**Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (died 1727)
**Louis de Boullogne, French painter and brother of Bon Boullogne (died 1733)
**Giovanni Evangelista Draghi, Italian painter (died 1712)
**Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious, historical and mythological subjects (died 1730)
**Pârvu Mutul, Romanian muralist and church painter (died 1735)
**Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, Italian painter of frescoes, director of Grand-Ducal Academy for the Arts (died 1736)
**Joseph Vivien, French painter (died 1735)

Deaths

*February 7 - Cesare Dandini, Italian painter (born 1596)
*February 19 - Evert van Aelst, Dutch still life painter (born 1602)
*March 7 - Balthasar van der Ast, Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit (born 1593/1594)
*April 29 - Jacques Stella, French painter (born 1596)
*June - Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch painter to the Dutch court in The Hague (born 1572)
*July - Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, scenic designer and painter (born 1604)
*August 16 - Pieter Soutman, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1580)
*August 19 - Frans Snyders, Flemish still-life master, apprenticed to Pieter II Brueghel (born 1579)
*September 13 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (born 1597)
*October
**David Bailly, Leiden artist (born 1584)
**Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, Dutch painter (born 1580)
*November 29 - Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches of the Baroque period (born 1590)
*''date unknown''
**Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch painter (born 1598)
** Carlo Bozzoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1605)
**Giovanni Paolo Oderico, Italian painter mainly active in Genoa (born 1613)
**Clara Peeters, Flemish still life painter (born 1594)
** Pieter van Schaeyenborgh, Dutch painter of fish still lifes (born 1600)
*''victims of the Genoa plague''
** Giuseppe Badaracco, Italian painter (born 1588)
**Bartolomeo Biscaino, Italian painter, active in his native Genoa (born 1632)
** Giovanni Andrea Biscaino (father of Bartolomeo), Italian painter of landscapes (date of birth ''unknown'')
**Silvestro Chiesa, Italian painter (b. ''unknown'')
**Giovanni Battista Mainero, Italian painter from Genoa (born 1600)
**Francesco Merano, Italian painter mainly active in his native Genoa (born 1619)
**Giovanni Battista Monti, Italian painter of portraits (date of birth ''unknown'')
** Giovanni Battista Primi, Italian marine landscapes and portrait painter (date of birth ''unknown'')
**Giovanni Stefano Verdura, Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Genoa (date of birth ''unknown'')

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